Welcome to DBSTalk

Welcome to DBSTalk. Our community covers all aspects of video delivery solutions including: Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS), Cable Television, and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). We also have forums to discuss popular television programs, home theater equipment, and internet streaming service providers. Members of our community include experts who can help you solve technical problems, industry professionals, company representatives, and novices who are here to learn.

Like most online communities you must register to view or post in our community. Sign-up is a free and simple process that requires minimal information. Be a part of our community by signing in or creating an account. The Digital Bit Stream starts here!

1. With all five tuners set to record NFL ST games and watching local Fox OTA channel. A couple of minutes before noon the standard message "This reciever needs to switch to channel 705 to record Colts etc...."

It gave the prompt "OK to record" or "Don't record".
When I selected "OK to record" the box would clear and then pop back on in a few seconds, never would clear. Then at 12:00 it changed channel as expected.

My experience with other HRxx recorders the box would clear after selection was made.

2. Another wierd one, when I tune to a NFL ST channel that is carried by the local OTA station the standard "This game is Blacked out" message would blink on and off a few times alternating with the progress bar then a black screen.

On other HRxx boxes it stays on and offers the option to search for a channel that is not blacked out.

The HR34 hangs consistently when I try to record 8-hour+ programs, with an extra hour tacked on because it's live. I have Smart Search auto-recordings for the US Open, Wimbledon and the French Open, and most days when recording the early rounds, the HR34 would freeze. No recordings happen; the machine turns on and shows live TV and recordings but does not record anything new. A menu restart solves the problem.

(Speculation: The HR34 calculates space remaining and deletes expired shows when a show starts, but if several programs fill up the available space in the meantime the recording processes fail catastrophically. Just a guess...)

We've had our HR34 since Feb and believe this problem started with the last update. We have it hooked up to the den TV via component (3' cable) and to the bedroom set (on the other side of the wall) via HDMI (18' cable).

Since the update, about half the time when we turn on the bedroom TV, either with its switch or via the DTV remote, the den TV immediately goes blue screen with the Vizio message "Signal Not Found". When acting normally like it did for six months, the den TV picture merely blinks momentarily and continues showing whatever was being watched when the other TV is turned on cable

The only way I've found to restart the signal to the den TV is to do a RBR. So, why is turning on the bedroom TV causing the HR34 to stop sending the component cables signal?

UPDATE: A friend recommended changing to a different HDMI port on the bedroom TV. I did that and it may have fixed my problem, but its only been tested about six times over three days now so I can't be sure if it's fixed for good as this was a seemly random problem that was becoming more frequent.

We were gone for part of last week and the weekend, so when I got home last night I looked at my ToDo list to see if any more new shows had populated my ToDo list. When I left it was at around 45 shows.

Well, wasn't I surprised when it was at 15. WTH? So I went looking at the Guide and sure enough several shows no longer showed the R icon. All of Monday's shows were Ok, but Tuesday had some missing, so in the Guide when I hit the Rec button once, it immediately displayed the Series Link R icon. So at that point it knew it was a SL and needed to be flagged as such.

This morning, I was back up to 48 shows to record. Anyone else seeing this?

We were gone for part of last week and the weekend, so when I got home last night I looked at my ToDo list to see if any more new shows had populated my ToDo list. When I left it was at around 45 shows.

Well, wasn't I surprised when it was at 15. WTH? So I went looking at the Guide and sure enough several shows no longer showed the R icon. All of Monday's shows were Ok, but Tuesday had some missing, so in the Guide when I hit the Rec button once, it immediately displayed the Series Link R icon. So at that point it knew it was a SL and needed to be flagged as such.

This morning, I was back up to 48 shows to record. Anyone else seeing this?

No but, I bet it'd record your shows either way. Could be a guide data thing. Some shows are starting this week, but not many. When did you get your HR34 and when did you set up these series links?

I've been having this very irritating and FREQUENT problem.... I can recreate it almost daily. I record an early morning news show, and darn near EVERY DAY, it won't play! When I select the recorded show, I get a screenshot of what was on the live feed when I hit 'play' and the progress bar is going, and going, and going. It looks like it's fast forwarding all the time, since the 'time' indicator is moving fairly quickly. But the icon in the progress bar changes when you attempt to ff or rew, giving the impression that something is working.

I discovered a work around for this problem.... if I leave the DVR set to a channel other than the channel I'm recording overnight, it records just fine! (example, recording ABC news, set DVR on CNN). It's been working great for the last week!

Not sure why I'm still on this release, but I'm not sure I want to risk a reboot and get the genie either. Last night's recording of The Amazing Race, which I have set for 2hrs because of football overuns recorded nothing. All I got was a frozen picture of whatever was on the screen when I hit play, and the scroll bar advancing throughout the 2hr time period. I also had 0 mins recorded for The Mentalist, while 2episodes of Once Upon a Time, Revenge, 666, and Copper all appear to have recorded with no issues. I luckily had both non-recording episodes set-up to record on the HR20, which recorded them just fine. Today, I came home and found a frozen screenshot of the Today show which I believe was from the final hour being shown @ 1pm on KSHB now (it was 3:45 at the time). Punching in 41, brought up the channel banner, but returned back to the frozen screenshot. I started playing something from my playlist, and hit exit, which brought back live TV on ch41. I currently have 27% freespace.